Gentle parenting reminders as we grow!
The parenting we do and the parenting we’ve already done matter greatly.
The interesting thing to consider is that our parenting will go on and on for many, many generations.
Even if you don’t directly have kids of our own, but you serve kids in another capacity, that work of next-generation giving, is your legacy.
I don’t want to discourage you at all. Instead, I hope you know I love to fire you up. So today my message to you is this. Be the generational change.
What change? Well, that’s for you to determine, really.
Change in our family system is just like when we’re trying to gain muscle mass, we have to make sure it’s consistent, so in family change work, including parenting, we also need to make tiny moves.
This means celebrating and taking breaks when you need them. Sometimes our kids frustrate us. Naturally, when there’s been suffering, we may want to exit right then or pretend that everything‘s easy or perfect to ignore it, so we don’t have to think about it.
But I’d like you to be a scientist of this parent-child relationship in a similar way that you’re trying to do with your marriage relationship.
Instead of trying to do it all at once, give yourself enough grace to take care of you also, however!
In this week’s podcast with Dr. Morgan Cutlip, she reminds you of the very same - to truly enjoy and refresh yourself so that you are a better parent. She also reminds us that balance will never be perfect - you get grace.
Take a deep breath with me today.
Let yourself take another one if needed. Try to do so deeply and thus bring hope in even the very words you say for the next generation. “I have hope.”
That hope is key, it will be the ticket to reignite a state of joy and not worry in your life, a state of warmth and not coldness, a state of action, little by little.
If today for instance, you are overserving your kids in any way, which is very common for mothers, especially make sure just for you.
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Remind yourself that the kids will be moms and dads one day, too! Show them grace!